Groucho Marx Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  Dust jacket for S. J. Perelman, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). This is described in Show Magazine, Nov. 1961.

• I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Writing, Mail

  Groucho Marx (2007). “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Hate

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

• The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Liars

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

• Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny Love, Silly, Writing

  "Fictional character: Wolf J. Flywheel". "The Big Store", 1941.

• I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Writing

  Groucho Marx (2007). “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

• Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, New York

• To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

  Groucho Marx

  Writing, Would Be, Autobiography

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.213, Da Capo Press

• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

• I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

  Groucho Marx

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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